2010 Match Cut Awards Ballot!

[Ezee E]

Best Animated Feature
The Illusionist
How to Train Your Dragon
Tangled
Toy Story 3

Best Song
"If I Rise" (from 127 Hours) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3KA7DdhQQ)
"Mother Knows Best" (from Tangled) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eftKKjVo6Y8)
"We Are Sex Bob-Omb" (from Scott Pilgrim VS. The World) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiLjTIeosBk)
"We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7ZjO-Nf5Q)

Best Documentary
Catfish
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Sweet Grass

Best Makeup
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy

Best Costume Design
Black Swan
Inception
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy
True Grit

Best Art Direction
Black Swan
Enter the Void
Inception
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy

Best Sound
Black Swan
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy

Best Visual Effects
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
Tron: Legacy

Best Editing
Black Swan
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
The Social Network

Best Score
Black Swan (http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=14869) (by Clint Mansell)
The Ghost Writer (http://tonightwewatchmovies.com/index.php?artist=The%20Ghost%2 0Writer%20Soundtrack) (by Alexandre Desplat)
Inception (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/We+Built+Our+Own+World/2YguDQ?src=5) (by Hans Zimmer)
The Social Network (http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/awards/#/music) (by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Tron: Legacy (http://soundcloud.com/somekindofawesome/sets/daft-punk-tron-soundtrack-sampler) (By Daft Punk)

Best Cinematography
Black Swan (by Matthew Libatique)
Enter the Void (by Benoit Debie)
Greenberg (by Harris Savides)
Inception (by Wally Pfister)
Shutter Island (by Robert Richardson)
True Grit (by Roger Deakins)

Best Ensemble
Dogtooth
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ghost Writer (by Robert Harris and Roman Polanski)
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World (by Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright)
The Social Network (by Aaron Sorkin)
Toy Story 3 (by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, and Andrew Stanton)
True Grit (by the Coen Brothers)

Best Original Screenplay
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfranc, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis)
Dogtooth (by Efthymis Filippou and Giorgos Lanthimos)
Everyone Else (by Maren Ade)
Greenberg (by Noah Baumbach)
Inception (by Christopher Nolan)

Best Supporting Actress
Marion Cotillard in Inception
Greta Gerwig in Greenberg
Barbara Hershey in Black Swan
Mila Kunis in Black Swan
Olivia Williams in The Ghost Writer

Best Supporting Actor
Neils Arestrup in A Prophet
Christian Bale in The Fighter
Pierce Brosnan in The Ghost Writer
Andrew Garfield in The Social Network
John Hawkes in Winter's Bone
Rhys Ifans in Greenberg

Best Actress
Hye-Ya Kim in Mother
Birgit Minichmayr in Everyone Else
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit
Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges in True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet
Edgar Ramirez in Carlos
Ben Stiller in Greenberg

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David Fincher for The Social Network
Giorgos Lanthimos for Dogtooth
Christopher Nolan for Inception
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim VS. The World

Best Picture
Black Swanhttp://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/images/black-swan-poster.jpg
Blue Valentinehttp://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/blue_valentine_poster-535x791.jpg
Dogtoothhttp://www.sevenart.gr/dynamicpics/movies/poster/78_DogtoothPoster.jpg
Exit Through The Gift Shophttp://www.moviepostershop.com/exit-through-the-gift-shop-movie-poster-1020549017.jpg
Inceptionhttp://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/inception_poster2.jpg

[Ezee E]

PM your ballot to me!

Results will be posted after the Oscars.

[soitgoes...]

Yay! It's like the Oscars with a smidge of world cinema!

[Spinal]

No Social Network for Best Picture? I love you, Match Cut.

[Spinal]

Looks like I need to check out Blue Valentine before voting.

And some other stuff. But especially that.

[Ezee E]

Random stuff:

-Carlos could've had a half-Black Swan/Inception showing. It nearly made the cut in Screenplay, Editing, Directing, and Costumes (?)

-Everyone Else also just missed the cut on Picture, Director, and Actor. A Prophet and Mother also had good showings in several categories.

-Despite killing it in the tech categories, Tron didn't have one Best Picture vote.

-Greta Gerwig split herself in votes. I made the executive decision to put her in Supporting Actress, otherwise she wouldn't have made it in either one.

-I think Exit Through the Gift Shop may be the first documentary to make it to the Best Picture stage for Match Cut.

-The lovers of The Illusionist pulled through on the final two days.

-Social Network also had a quick kick in the final two days, barely making it into Director, Ensemble, and nearly making it to several other categories.

-Scott Pilgrim also killed it, but didn't have much support in the Best Picture.

-Four other actresses were lined up in Best Actress for sixth place. A last minute vote for Hailee kicked her up. The Dogtooth actress also split herself, but didn't make the cut even if you combined her votes.

-I almost thought of cutting Best Song completely, but the last two days of voting got a few songs more then two votes.

-Legend of the Guardians nearly made it in over The Illusionist.

-Enter the Void seemed to have 3-4 votes in every single category.

[Spinal]

-The lovers of The Illusionist pulled through on the final two days.



Now everybody see it!

[Spinal]

13 nominations for Black Swan, but not one for Screenplay. Heh.

[Ivan Drago]

Hey E, unless there's a problem, can I submit another vote before the due date? I ask because I just found out Blue Valentine is coming to my town this weekend and afraid I'll regret the votes I just PM'd to you after I see it.

[Ezee E]

Hey E, unless there's a problem, can I submit another vote before the due date? I ask because I just found out Blue Valentine is coming to my town this weekend and afraid I'll regret the votes I just PM'd to you after I see it.
Yeah, just tell me what you changed compared to the old ballot and I'll adjust.

[Boner M]

What did Barbara Hershey do to get a Black Swan nod, aside from looking weathered and matronly?

[Spinal]

I actually don't have a ton of catching up to do.

Sweetgrass
Carlos
A Prophet
Mother
Blue Valentine
Greenberg

Doubt I will watch Ghost Writer and definitely not watching Harry Potter.

[Ezee E]

Chloe Moretz was also somewhat close to a double nomination for Let Me In and Kick-Ass.

Let Me In had a rush of votes this past weekend. The DVD has really kicked in. Sadly it got 0 noms.

[Ezee E]

I encourage everyone to listen to the scores all the way through before blindly voting for Daft Punk just because it's Daft Punk. :)

[Boner M]

Rhys Ifans for Greenberg is my favorite acting nomination. Wondrously subtle work.

[Spinal]

People didn't vote for Black Swan in Score because of the Swan Lake theme, did they? Please tell me they didn't.

[B-side]

Chloe Moretz was also somewhat close to a double nomination for Let Me In and Kick-Ass.

:frustrated:

[B-side]

Rhys Ifans for Greenberg is my favorite acting nomination. Wondrously subtle work.

He was on my ballot.

Love me, Boner. LOVE MEEEEE

[Bosco B Thug]

What did Barbara Hershey do to get a Black Swan nod, aside from looking weathered and matronly? Not to gang up on Black Swan, but I've been wondering the same thing but about Mila Kunis. Oh, she goes from nice girl to mean girl, what a dual performance!

She was fine, of course, and added an integral dramatic component to the film - I loved her/her character in the film. But I'm just saying... after all the awards recognition she got, I thought it was perfectly rational she didn't get an Oscar nod.

[Boner M]

Kunis was actually my favorite performance in the film.

[Spinal]

Kunis was actually my favorite performance in the film.

Mine too.

[Ezee E]

:frustrated:
Nothing to scratch your head about since it didn't make the cut.

Kick-Ass had a chance at screenplay, costumes, and art direction too. :)

[Ezee E]

People didn't vote for Black Swan in Score because of the Swan Lake theme, did they? Please tell me they didn't.
Yeah, another reason I encourage everyone to listen to the scores again. Although it's hard to judge. Do you vote based on how it works within the movie or on its own? It's definitely the least interesting on its own. I need to see the movie again to see how it works within the movie.

Still doubt it even gets close to what Reznor or Desplat did, and I'm a huge Black Swan supporter.

[Bosco B Thug]

Kunis was actually my favorite performance in the film.

I actually loved her character and her performance as well, and hell, I may even agree with you and Spinal (notice I didn't nominate anyone from Black Swan...), but am I wrong to say she's not asked to stretch her range much? Nor does she have much screen time, like Hershey. Or maybe I need to re-watch the film.

At least Hershey has big crying scenes. Anyone who knows acting care to argue that crying scenes/scenes of duress aren't the way to rank a performance?

[B-side]

Nothing to scratch your head about since it didn't make the cut.

Kick-Ass had a chance at screenplay, costumes, and art direction too. :)

Astonishing. Can't wrap my head around any praise for that film.

[Rowland]

I'm surprised that Blue Valentine made the cut for Best Picture, presumably in lieu of (the superior) Everyone Else, especially since both were seen by a mere 20 posters around here, which is nearly a third as for Inception, and yet still more than all of my Documentary nominations combined [/bitter]. Most of these results were otherwise pretty predictable, though I'll second Boner's appreciation for the Rhys Ifans recognition, who I nominated despite really mixed feelings with Greenberg as a whole. I also dig the Pierce Brosnan nod.

[Watashi]

Ryan Reynolds should have been there for Buried.

[dmk]

Kunis is so annoying.

I think: Desplat and Polanski really have their (score/director) awards in the bag, and if they don't *shakes first*

Bad film, but deserving of that nomination since Moretz was very good in Kick-Ass (and yet bad in Let Me In, which in itself was a very good film).

[Watashi]

I encourage everyone to listen to the scores all the way through before blindly voting for Daft Punk just because it's Daft Punk. :)
But it's easily the best score there.

[Rowland]

The scores for I Am Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnx4olcrAkg) and Animal Kingdom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY525VgIJqU&feature=related) both deserved more recognition. And while I figured most of my more obscure nominations weren't going to make the cut, I was at least rooting for Sean Combs from Get Him to the Greek to make a surprise appearance.

[B-side]

Kunis is so annoying.

Gonna have to agree with you there. Do not care for her at all. Mediocre actress to boot.


Bad film, but deserving of that nomination since Moretz was very good in Kick-Ass (and yet bad in Let Me In, which in itself was a very good film).

Naw. She's better in the latter.

[Barty]

Inception for score, yo. Seriously.

[Lucky]

The scores for I Am Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnx4olcrAkg) and Animal Kingdom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY525VgIJqU&feature=related) both deserved more recognition. And while I figured most of my more obscure nominations weren't going to make the cut, I was at least rooting for Sean Combs from Get Him to the Greek to make a surprise appearance.

The score for I Am Love is deserving, yes, but I'm more disappointed that Swinton missed a nod. That was a large motivation for me to submit a ballot in the first place.

[soitgoes...]

The score for I Am Love is deserving, yes, but I'm more disappointed that Swinton missed a nod. That was a large motivation for me to submit a ballot in the first place.There's a half a dozen nominations the film deserved.

[dreamdead]

Sad to see Secret Sunshine get blanketed, though its lack of R1 DVD inevitably hurt its chances. And though we still have to finish up I am Love, I'm preemptively sad for that film's many strengths.

[NickGlass]

Random stuff:

-Carlos could've had a half-Black Swan/Inception showing. It nearly made the cut in Screenplay, Editing, Directing, and Costumes (?)

Why the question mark after costumes? They were brilliant, even when the decision was to have Carlos strut around naked.


-Everyone Else also just missed the cut on Picture, Director, and Actor. A Prophet and Mother also had good showings in several categories.

Ugh, Maren Ade got hosed. I can't believe the thematically similar, yet sledge-hammer obvious Blue Valentine scored a best picture nomination over it.


-Greta Gerwig split herself in votes. I made the executive decision to put her in Supporting Actress, otherwise she wouldn't have made it in either one.

I still don't see how she's supporting, so I guess I should just blame those who placed her in supporting for my satisfaction that she showed up somewhere, even if it's category fraud (and, yeesh, aside from Williams and Gerwig, that category is weak).


-I think Exit Through the Gift Shop may be the first documentary to make it to the Best Picture stage for Match Cut.

I'm ok with that, but stilled bummed about Everyone Else. While perusing the nomination ballots, I thought it was a shoo-in.


-The lovers of The Illusionist pulled through on the final two days.

Good, because I think I forgot to vote for it.


-Four other actresses were lined up in Best Actress for sixth place. A last minute vote for Hailee kicked her up.

Although I'm happy people are recognizing it as a lead performance, I'm very displeased that people are recognizing it as one of the best five lead female performances of the year. I'm curious to hear which four actresses got bumped by a showy, efficient, finely postured performance of little depth and imagination--merely a character, and not a person.

[Raiders]

sledge-hammer obvious Blue Valentine

Don't understand this at all. I think there is a very strong difference between being "sledge-hammer obvious" and being outwardly emotionally turbulent. It's a film about a balancing act of past and present emotions that is itself a balancing act of those same emotions. People struggle with love and relationships in various ways (not to mention there are multiple instances in the present scenes that show a great and understated tenderness and fruitless attempts at levity and playfulness). Sure the end result may be louder and more direct, but the impact and emotions it generates are no less authentic or varied.

[Ezee E]

Although I'm happy people are recognizing it as a lead performance, I'm very displeased that people are recognizing it as one of the best five lead female performances of the year. I'm curious to hear which four actresses got bumped by a showy, efficient, finely postured performance of little depth and imagination--merely a character, and not a person.


I'll have to look at it again for one of them, but I know the woman in Secret Sunshine was one of them. Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone being two others.

[DavidSeven]

Really hope people make an effort to see Blue Valentine before voting. Not sure it would even be my pick, but it'd be interesting to see how this plays out on as level a playing field as possible.

Best group of Best Picture noms I've seen on the internetz yet!

EDIT: Dogtooth, too. The other three appear to have been pretty widely seen by this group.

[Barty]

Best picture really should be decided be preferential voting system like the Oscars. That would be fun.

[Ezee E]

Best picture really should be decided be preferential voting system like the Oscars. That would be fun.
The Oscar way ends up really just being who has the most #1's anyway.

[Pop Trash]

Bad film, but deserving of that nomination since Moretz was very good in Kick-Ass (and yet bad in Let Me In, which in itself was a very good film).

FUCK NO!

[Pop Trash]

In other news, all five BP noms were in my top ten. Great job internet!

[baby doll]

I think: Desplat and Polanski really have their (score/director) awards in the bag, and if they don't *shakes first*With the possible exception of Lanthimos (I haven't seen Dogtooth, but will sometime this week), Polanski is the only guy who deserves to be nominated. Okay, maybe Wright.

Even putting aside all the unintentional camp in Black Swan, I just don't see it as being a very well directed movie. It's like Aronofsky saw La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc and decided to do something like that, but didn't understand what makes Dreyer's film so formally radical. For starters, Dreyer doesn't provide eye line matches that would orient us spatially and there's usually more than two people in the room, while Black Swan consists largely of two-person dialogue scenes punctuated by formulaically shot ballet scenes. Also, it'd be really sad if Aronofsky won over Polanski because he's blatantly ripping off Repulsion.

Similarly, Nolan only has two registers: static, boring dialogue scenes, consisting largely of over-the-shoulder shots and close-ups of people talking, and noisy, incomprehensible action scenes. Giving him a nomination for best director seems rather unfair to all the Hollywood hacks making mindless action movies that directed just as predictably. I mean, could some one please explain to me how Nolan's direction here is significantly more impressive than Tony Scott's work in Unstoppable?

Meanwhile, Fincher's compositions in The Social Network are as overly fussy in their symmetrical framing as Aronofsky's are unnecessarily shaky, but that doesn't mean he's doing anything fundamentally different, in terms of staging or eye line matches.

Wright is more impressive in that, working in essentially the same stylistic mode, he displays quite a bit of wit and playfulness. (On the other hand, Aronofsky, Fincher, and Nolan don't have a playful bone between them.) Still, in terms of visual storytelling and utilizing off-screen space, Polanski is clearly in a league by himself.

[Ezee E]

Not sure if The Social Network, Black Swan, or Inception should have taken a "playful" approach.

[baby doll]

Not sure if The Social Network, Black Swan, or Inception should have taken a "playful" approach.Well, it couldn't have hurt Black Swan, given how laughable it is already. (Admittedly I'm not an expert on the ballet world, but I think sexual harassment laws are the same for everyone and ballet directors don't have some special pass.) In any case, there's a difference between well directed and adequately shot by an overrated hack. What's so bloody impressive about Aronofsky, Fincher, and Nolan as directors?

[Watashi]

Does anyone have a feeling that babydoll has been repeating the exact same post over and over again?

[Spinal]

Yeah, I skipped the obligatory 'bitching about everybody's mainstream tastes' post this time.

[Adam]

I agree that Aronofsky & Nolan are kinda soulless directors, although I do like a few of Nolan's films. Fincher has made a couple of soulless movies, but he's always at least been more of a Brian De Palma-ish "born filmmaker" than those other two. And I also get the sense he isn't as obsessed with how his imdb page looks. Basically, there will never be a moment in a Nolan film as goofily awesome as when Sean Penn shows Michael Douglas his t-shirt at the end of The Game

[EyesWideOpen]

Looks like I'll just need to watch (Winter's Bone, Enter the Void, and A Prophet) and I'll be pretty much caught up with the stuff left to watch. I'd love to see The Illusionist but I'm not driving an hour to see it.

[Ezee E]

Requiem for a Dream is anything but soulless to me.

[Adam]

I haven't seen Requiem for a while, but I meant soulless in terms of the actual filmmaking and not so much the thematic content. You're right, though, it was probably a bad choice of words on my part anyway. The Fountain is a veerrry soulful movie, almost embarrassingly so, and I still hate it

[DavidSeven]

Clearly, we should all take lessons in "Good Direction" from the guy who thought the only reason Aronofsky incorporated a rotating camera in Black Swan was to simulate the movement of a dreidel because his movie was not yet "Jewish" enough. Clearly.

[Boner M]

Fincher's compositions in The Social Network are as overly fussy in their symmetrical framing
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iJOT1XhFiBw/Sz_D5mLi4mI/AAAAAAAACkc/rhnmZ_jF8Lg/s320/photo-Jeanne-Dielman-23-Quai-du-Commerce-1080-Bruxelles-1975-3.jpg

[soitgoes...]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iJOT1XhFiBw/Sz_D5mLi4mI/AAAAAAAACkc/rhnmZ_jF8Lg/s320/photo-Jeanne-Dielman-23-Quai-du-Commerce-1080-Bruxelles-1975-3.jpgYeah, but Akerman isn't part of this discussion because she doesn't make commercial flicks.

[Boner M]

Yeah, but Akerman isn't part of this discussion because she doesn't make commercial flicks.
Irish'd!

[soitgoes...]

Irish'd!:lol:

[baby doll]

Clearly, we should all take lessons in "Good Direction" from the guy who thought the only reason Aronofsky incorporated a rotating camera in Black Swan was to simulate the movement of a dreidel because his movie was not yet "Jewish" enough. Clearly.You're too smart to think I meant that comment literally. Come on.

[baby doll]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iJOT1XhFiBw/Sz_D5mLi4mI/AAAAAAAACkc/rhnmZ_jF8Lg/s320/photo-Jeanne-Dielman-23-Quai-du-Commerce-1080-Bruxelles-1975-3.jpgYeah, yeah, you got me. But seriously, Akerman's whole style is about a kind of painterly stasis, while Fincher just comes off as a perfectionist former fashion photographer whose images are slick to the point of being embalmed.

[Boner M]

Fincher just comes off as a perfectionist former fashion photographer whose images are slick to the point of being embalmed.
Ehh, seems like apt stylistic approach for a film about a calculatingly, anally retentive geek whose singleminded drive has left him a hollow shell of a person.

[DavidSeven]

You're too smart to think I meant that comment literally. Come on.

I wasn't being serious either. Just some ribbing in payback of your assertion that people who like Black Swan don't understand cinema. You had to know you were going to catch some wrath for that one.

[baby doll]

Ehh, seems like apt stylistic approach for a film about a calculatingly, anally retentive geek whose singleminded drive has left him a hollow shell of a person.Touché. Touché.

[B-side]

I mean, could some one please explain to me how Nolan's direction here is significantly more impressive than Tony Scott's work in Unstoppable?

It's not. At all. Scott is a superior stylist. He revels in the immediacy of his worlds in a distinctly hyperclassical fashion. More to the point on Unstoppable, I defer you to Michael J. Anderson because he's smarter than me and a much better writer:


Unstoppable is also exceedingly a film of surfaces, both those of the flat screens that transmit the broadcasts, and also those that in some respect filter the images, such as the constant transparent surfaces that come between the camera and the performers. In these many images, such as the frame reproduced at the outset, Scott manages to maintain moment-to-moment visual interest - not unlike one of the best-looking productions on cable television today, the Scott-inspired "White Collar" on the USA Network - while also reminding his viewer of the barrier between apparatus and subject. The world of Unstoppable is foremost a filmed world, a world that is constantly and ubiquitously mediated, though not exactly manipulated in the sense of the earlier film. If DéjÃ* Vu indeed presented a filmed and viewed world within its world, Unstoppable re-frames the object of surveillance as the world of today.

[Derek]

So, anyone else not all that impressed with Chloe Moretz? She was annoying in Kick-Ass and forced and overly manner in Let Me In. The latter was still a fine child performance, but faaar from one of the best of the year IMO and Lina Leandersson's perf in the original was much stronger.

And Barbara Hershey WTF Matchcut.

[Spinal]

I thought she was adequate in Let Me In. Not overly impressive, but also never distracting.

[B-side]

I think she's good. Just needs better material.

[Spinal]

And Barbara Hershey WTF Matchcut.

You were hoping for Winona Ryder?

[baby doll]

And Barbara Hershey WTF Matchcut.WTF, indeed. But on a more positive note, I don't know whether to vote for Gerwig or Williams in the same category because I love 'em both. Gerwig definitely has the bigger part, but every word out of Williams' mouth is pure acid. As for best actress, well, I hope I really like Blue Valentine.

[baby doll]

You were hoping for Winona Ryder?I like both actresses a lot, but man, they just had nothing to work with. I think the buzz around Kunis' performance has a lot to do with her character not being a total harpy. Still, I liked her better on That '70s Show.

[elixir]

I should have voted for Everyone Else.

Dang, wish the lead from Secret Sunshine made it.

[baby doll]

I should have voted for Everyone Else.

Dang, wish the lead from Secret Sunshine made it.Jeon Do-yeon. She's also pretty awesome in My Dear Enemy.

[elixir]

Jeon Do-yeon. She's also pretty awesome in My Dear Enemy.

Yeah, I know her name because I voted for her. I don't know why I didn't say it. I need to see more of her movies.

[eternity]

I'm curious what the BP nominees would look like with 6-10 in there; Oscar style.

[Ezee E]

I'm curious what the BP nominees would look like with 6-10 in there; Oscar style.
Everyone Else
Social Network
The Ghost Writer
Mother
Secret Sunshine

[Ivan Drago]

Hope to see Blue Valentine and Dogtooth within the next week or so. Don't know how to approach the latter though, it doesn't seem like my type of movie.

[Boner M]

Don't know how to approach the latter though, it doesn't seem like my type of movie.
Why? You seem to like audacious provocations.

[elixir]

Everyone Else
Social Network
The Ghost Writer
Mother
Secret Sunshine

I kind of want to switch lists... :)

[Ivan Drago]

Why? You seem to like audacious provocations.

Yeah I do, but I've heard Dogtooth is more on the raunchy end of the spectrum rather than explicitly graphic like Enter The Void.

[ledfloyd]

this is the worst group of best picture nominees i can remember.

[Ivan Drago]

Yeah I do, but I've heard Dogtooth is more on the raunchy end of the spectrum rather than explicitly graphic like Enter The Void.

Well, that didn't turn out the way I thought it would at all.

[Spinal]

this is the worst group of best picture nominees i can remember.

:crazy:

[soitgoes...]

:crazy:
I think this is the weakest of the last three years. I don't know if the 6-10 films from this year would be a better group, but it does have two films that I feel stronger about than any of the four I get to choose from that I've seen.

I say this still having to see Blue Valentine, so who knows, that one could be the one that makes this year awesome.

[Ezee E]

Blue Valentine and awesome aren't exactly words that go together.

[Dukefrukem]

I forgot to submit my ballot :(

[Ezee E]

I forgot to submit my ballot :(
You can still vote for winners though.

[EyesWideOpen]

The Illusionist opened to two theaters right by this weekend so I'll get to see it after all. I was really hoping to see another besides Toy Story 3.

[B-side]

Blue Valentine and awesome aren't exactly words that go together.

They go together pretty well for me.

[Ezee E]

They go together pretty well for me.
Blue Valentine is awesome.

Not how I'd express it to someone.

You know. I'd really like to see someone make a trailer of how it'd be a feel-good romantic comedy. If it hasn't already been done.

[elixir]

Blue Valentine is awesome.

Not how I'd express it to someone.

You know. I'd really like to see someone make a trailer of how it'd be a feel-good romantic comedy. If it hasn't already been done.

You can easily do it but just taking many of the moments from the flashback. (Come on, he sings to her and she dances! It's going to be so feel-good!)

[Ezee E]

You can easily do it but just taking many of the moments from the flashback. (Come on, he sings to her and she dances! It's going to be so feel-good!)
Yeah. There's a few other moments that could be edited in a happy way too. Joking about the different rooms from Gosling. Etc.

[eternity]

Half of the movie is ridiculously happy; happier than most exclusively happy romcoms even. That's why the other half seems so damn sad.

[Ivan Drago]

E, I PMed you my new ballot.

[elixir]

When does this need to be done by?

[baby doll]

Come on, he sings to her and she dances! It's going to be so feel-good!By the way, did Gosling singing "You Always Hurt the Ones You Love" remind anyone of Jeanne Moreau singing "Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves" in Fassbinder's Querelle? Plus, they use the Platters' "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," which Fassbinder used in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. It's probably a coincidence, but definitely not a comparison the film benefits from.

[Ezee E]

This Sunday, ballots are due!

[Spinal]

I really failed at that whole catch-up thing.

[Ezee E]

I really failed at that whole catch-up thing.
What were you trying to see?

[elixir]

I should probably force to see The Illusionist at least. It's pretty short.

[Spinal]

What were you trying to see?

Well, Blue Valentine mostly. I've had Greenberg out from Netflix for over a week. Still haven't watched it.

[Derek]

Well, Blue Valentine mostly.

You should watch it soon. It's awesome.

[Bosco B Thug]

Well, Blue Valentine mostly. I've had Greenberg out from Netflix for over a week. Still haven't watched it.
And Greenberg is actually kind of appealing when it's not being unappealing.

[elixir]

Blue Valentine and Greenberg are both very good.

[Spinal]

Planning on going to Blue Valentine today and then I will send my ballot.

[Ezee E]

I'll extend to tomorrow since Mondays are my long days for work. I'll start announcing Tuesday afternoon.

[Ezee E]

Anyone want to "present" a category? PM me quickly!

[Ezee E]

Any good graphic artists here that want to try something quick and easy?

[Ezee E]

5 ties... Some in some important categories.

Anyone else?

[Bosco B Thug]

5 ties... Some in some important categories.

Anyone else?
Oh I'll do this now.

[Henry Gale]

Just PM'd mine, but I wish I'd seen The Illusionist, Dogtooth, Mother, Tangled, The Ghost Writer and Enter The Void in time.